South Asia Citizens Web

’Digging into Adani - Four Corners’, Full Documentary on the dubious dealings of India’s corporate colossus. When Four Corners travelled to India to investigate the activities of the giant Adani group, they soon discovered the power of the company. The program analyses the Adani Group’s opaque financial operations and investigates the ramifications for their Australian operations.

Noor Fatima, a 2-year-old girl from Lahore, had several holes in her heart. The surgery was prohibitively expensive in Pakistan. Nadeem Sajjad, her father, a marketing executive, traveled with his ailing child and wife across several thousand miles, a difficult history and a toxic politics, to Narayana Hrudayalaya, a hospital in Bangalore, in southern India. The girl’s visit to Bangalore became a major media event. Ordinary Indians offered financial support; celebrations followed her successful surgery. Gauri Lankesh, the Indian editor who was assassinated this month, wrote about Noor’s surgery, India and Pakistan in the Kannada-language paper Lankesh Patrike. Her original essay was published on July 24, 2003.

Pakistan’s working-class icon Qandeel Baloch, killed in 2016 after becoming a social media celebrity. One year on, why has no one stood trial for her killing?

[27 Sept 2017] Karnataka became the second state to approve anti black magic bill in its cabinet - Success for the continuous collective efforts and follow up by Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti

The Kashmir conflict is driven by nationalistic and religious fervor, each side pointing to the violence and injustice of the other, each side pointing to its own suffering and sorrow. The distrust, paranoia, and neurosis permeating the relationship between a large number of people of J & K and the Indian Union has intensified the conflict. The guerilla war in the state has gone through a series of phases since 1990 but repressive military and political force remains the brutal reality in the State, which cannot be superseded by seemingly abstract democratic aspirations.